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America East Gameday: 11/20

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#1 ·
7:00
LaSalle (1-1) @ HARTFORD (1-2)
LaSalle W v. Delaware, L v. CCSU

7:30
BOSTON (0-3) @ Rutgers (2-1)
SUNJ L v. St. Peter's, W v. Sacred Heart, W @ Princeton

Central Connecticut State (2-2) @ UMBC(1-2)
CCSU L v. Fairfield in OT-Neutral Site, L @ St. Peter's, W v Brown, W @ LaSalle

ALBANY (3-2) @ South Carolina State (3-1)
SCSU beat two sub D-Is, L v. Kennesaw State, W v. NJ Tech
 
#3 ·
CCSU's first game of a 3-game road trip through America East. Next: @ Hartford (11/24), and @ UNH (12/5).

Will be interesting to see what the "new look" UMBC will throw at Central. Personally, I'm going to miss Monroe on the sidelines tonight - he was fun to watch. This is one of our better non-conf "rivals" so I’m glad to see this series still going. Would love to get Albany back onto our schedule and trade out UNH for UVM in the future.

CCSU is starting to look very good and could realistically be 4-0 right now. Very close losses in the first 2 games to MAAC foes. Impressive win over a quality LaSalle team in Philly on Sunday. Vinales is as good of a scorer as most teams will see this season. He's can take over any game and he’s a pleasure to watch. Should get some more pub and hype as the season progress. Was the Nation’s leading Frosh scorer last year. He’s averaging 23 a game right now.

Central is starting to get contributions from everyone especially up front and on the wings - so this is not a lumbering 3-headed monster like last year (Horton-Ptacek-Vinales). Much better chemistry and ball movement this year. However, CCSU is very thin at guards. Could be a problem when they are in foul trouble or later in NEC play.

Central is only 18-15 all-time vs. UMBC, but the Blue Devils have won 9 of the last 10 vs. the Retrievers. Howie is 14-5 vs. UMBC, so I expect CCSU to win tonight at the RAC without too much of a problem.
 
#12 ·
Was on my way to Hartford to see the game and the traffic was so heavy I turned aroundand went home. Glad I did. It was annoying enough watching this streamed rather than traveling to the game. In the first half Hartford was really awful......couldn't buy a bucket.

Moore and Cooper who have played well so far showed their youth today. Moore missed soooo many bunny's today. Cooper while limiting turnovers in previous games must have had a half dozen tonight.

Nwakamma was solid....my guess is a double/double. Cole looked good. In a nice suprise frosh Taylor Dyson finally got his first minutes of the season and prbably had more points than minutes played (I think he had 10 points and I doubt he played 10 minutes).

Gladly onto the next game.
 
#19 ·
Fantastic effort by BU against Rutgers. Very close, could have won it but Malik Thomas got whistled for a flagrant foul late in the game.

Too bad about UMBC/CCSU. Thought they might have had that one.
 
#20 ·
As usual, playing in a BCS school's gym does us no favors. Down by 1 with under 10 secs left, and BU gets called for an intentional foul? Seriously? So much for momentum

Showed a lot of heart coming all the way back from about 20 points down early in the game - we were the better team for the final 30 minutes. DJ Irving was tremendous.

In the first half, Rutgers got credit for a 3-pt and the dude's foot was like most of the way over the line - they never fixed it and the announcers chalked it up to playing in a BCS school's gym. I'm really glad we lost by 2 points instead of 1.
 
#22 ·
Sounds a lot like how we got jobbed down in Tampa last season against South Florida. Refs waived off a perfectly good tip in by Glass.

Need to just beat these Big East teams outright like we did against Rutgers in 09-10. Can't leave it close.
 
#21 ·
What a game...best home game I've seen in a very long time. This team will be fun to watch this year, that's for sure.

I had a pretty good view of the late Plummer foul, and it was a terrible call. With six secs left, Plummer doubled teamed, forcing the CCSU guard to dribble with two feet over halfcourt. A whistle was then blown, but for the foul. Simply a very bad call, and even the CCSU fans around had a little "that was lucky" look on their face.

However, if I had to pick either CCSU or UMBC to watch for the rest of the season, I would actually pick UMBC. (Bias may be included....:wave:) CCSU didn't seem to have any offensive rhythm, as they chucked threes or haphazardly drove to the bucket. UMBC ran their most effective offensive scheme in years, and their young athletes (Morgan, Getz, Plummer, Cook, Garner) brought an unique energy to the floor.

UMBC may have gotten the short end of the stick tonight, and a win would've been nice, but I'm hard-pressed to find many negatives, which is a pleasant change.

Good game.
 
#23 ·
First, I agree - great game. As always, I'm impressed with UMBC team effort and the experience at the RAC. The band is great, but the student section was kinda small tonight.

I thought UMBC played very, very well, but from my seat the 10 for 20 from behind the arc really kept you in the game. Also, CCSU missed the layup at the end of regulation and a few other chippies throughout the game. I don't think it was an awful call at the end, but I didn't see it clearly.

UMBC has some shooters and played very well on the offensive glass. They were good both in the paint and good from behind the arc. Lots of ball movement and clearly they could have won the game.

On the CCSU side, I thought we look good despite very poor 3-pt shooting. We have 5 guys in double figures and Kyle almost put up 30. He took over the game in OT. CCSU is not deep, but this team plays hard and looks like they expect to win. To come out on top in a non-conf road game when we missed a lot of shots says a lot about this team. I'm looking forward to this season.

Good luck UMBC, I think you have a good team that should win its fair share of games in the AE.

Sophomore Kyle Vinales scored the final seven points of overtime for the Blue Devils as the Central Connecticut men's basketball team won its third straight game, 83-82, at UMBC on Tuesday night. Vinales led all scorers with 29 points on the night, including 18 in the second half and overtime. Central is 3-2 with the victory, and plays again on Saturday at Hartford at 4 p.m.

All five starters scored in double-figures for the second straight game. It hadn't happened in three seasons prior to Sunday at LaSalle. It's happened twice in two games for CCSU.

Vinales didn't shoot well from the floor, but hit two straight big buckets when the Blue Devils went down five in overtime. Junior Matt Hunter had a career-high 22 points and eight rebounds in the win. He also had four steals. He leads the team in both rebounding and steals this season.

Sophomore Adonis Burbage, senior Joe Efese and and sophomore Malcolm McMillan had 10 each. McMillan had four assists and did not have a turnover for the second straight game. Efese had a season-high four blocks and a career-high three steals. Central had 13 steals in the game.
http://www.ccsubluedevils.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/releases/20121120sh3m2a
 
#24 ·
Papale is also easily best shooter left in the conference.

Doesn't have much of a off-the dribble game and haven't seen him go to rim yet, but as he gets stronger and improves ball handling, I could honestly see him turning into a former URI-Jimmy Baron.

In terms of mechanics on his shot though, it's all there.
 
#30 ·
I honestly haven't even looked at FG% or 3pt FG% because there's only been a few games. I didn't even know Papale and Iati were both around 50% for 3s. I mean, the other day Jordan Clarke ex-UVM/Drake was leading the NCAAs in FG% after 2 games at 90% and one of those was against a Sub D1....but I'm not going to use that to tell you Jordan Clarke is the best shooter in the country :)

Anyways, Iati is obviously a terrific shooter and shooting the heck out of the ball- my preference between the two would be Papale though because he's taller and his technique/form is textbook.

It's also misleading to point out Papale benefits from Irving/Watson without mentioning Iati benefits from Mike Black and Guerrier- two players that both shot very well last season- Guerrier shot over 40% from 3, and Black is probably off to the most impressive start offensively in the conference.
 
#32 ·
Iati shot 46.5 percent from 3 last season, he's put together a large enough sample size to know he's legit... Obviously iati benefits from guerrier in the sense that he'd be worse off without him on the floor and a lesser player in his place, but to imply that he is in the same boat as Papale simply isn't true. Iati is one of two marked players on Albany, he is the second biggest focus of opposing defenses, Papale is not. Iati's usage rate and touches are significantly higher. papale is a great shooter, right now he is benefitting from being a much lesser focus of opposing defenses.
 
#35 ·
This may be a little off topic, but watching Iati in the AE tournament game last year, he was obviously a defensive liability. I mean to the point that he was hurting his team by being on the floor in a close game. I actually felt bad for the kid and the team. His guy scored like every possession in crunch time. He may be a clutch shooter, but sometimes you can't keep guys like that on the floor.
 
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